On 12/11/2010 11:17 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: [...] > I'm now looking for something that could scale beyond 100TB on one > device (not necessarily one unit though) and find it frustrating that > most NAS's come in 1U or 2U at most. Not meant as a commercial. See http://scalableinformatics.com/sicluster Scales through many PB. 100TB isn't an issue, we have many in the field of this size or larger (and smaller). Runs Gluster 3.x (3.1.x recommended). > Maybe I'm just not shopping around enough, or maybe I prefer to well > known brands, I don't know. The "well known" brands have well known limitations. You have to decide if brand name is more important than meeting the specific needs. -- Joseph Landman, Ph.D Founder and CEO Scalable Informatics, Inc. email: landman at scalableinformatics.com web : http://scalableinformatics.com http://scalableinformatics.com/sicluster phone: +1 734 786 8423 x121 fax : +1 866 888 3112 cell : +1 734 612 4615